Research snapshot · Development · 31 August 2026

Zoning and site plan in New Hampshire: 62 towns on the record, the pace easing

This page is a snapshot, cut 31 August 2026, of a topic that moves. Below is the shape of the movement, read from the towns' own meeting records, and the way to get a view of it that stays current.

Snapshot taken 31 August 2026, based on 153 dated municipal records flagged as zoning and site plan in New Hampshire, spanning 62 municipalities. The topic moves; a later cut supersedes this page.

What this page is for one topic at state or national scope, told as a story: how it arrived, the shape of its movement, a dated snapshot of a moving record, and the door to a view of it that stays current. If it does not, write to us; that is what changes the next edition.

The story so far

The record starts in Hampton, 13 October 2008. Since then 62 New Hampshire towns have put the topic on a meeting record, the newest of them Warner on 28 July 2026.

The last 90 days put 10 meetings on the record, well down from 37 in the 90 days before.

It runs through the rooms where budgets and ordinances are made: Planning Board, Conservation Commission and Select Board.

The shape of the movement

Dated meetings on the record at this scope, quarter by quarter, and the same 90-day count as a rolling line, whose right-hand point is that number. Counts of documents, never a reading of what they decided.
QuarterMeetingsTowns
Sep 2025 to Nov 2025126
Dec 2025 to Feb 20264830
Mar 2026 to May 20264226
Jun 2026 to Aug 2026 (current)107

a rolling 90-day total, so the right-hand point is that same 90-day count. The busiest stretch was Dec 2025 to Feb 2026, with 48 meetings.

The towns on the record62, earliest first

Every New Hampshire town carrying the topic, the earliest first, each with its latest document.
Hamptonearliest 2008-10-13 · 1 meeting · latest 2008-10-13 · the agenda 10-13-08 BOS Agenda (PDF) Draft
Plymouthearliest 2019-01-17 · 1 meeting · latest 2019-01-17 · the document Planning Board — 1-17-19
Nashuaearliest 2020-01-09 · 5 meetings · latest 2026-05-05 · the agenda Conservation Commission Meeting 2026-05-05 — agenda
Lebanonearliest 2020-08-27 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-04-23 · the agenda Lebanon Energy Advisory Committee Meeting 2026-04-23 — Agenda
Straffordearliest 2022-01-18 · 4 meetings · latest 2026-07-21 · the document SB20260707
Bowearliest 2024-02-01 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-03-16 · the agenda 3/16/2026 Bow Conservation Commission Agenda
Rindgeearliest 2024-11-12 · 11 meetings · latest 2026-07-23 · the minutes Conservation Commission — RCC Minutes 072326
Ossipeeearliest 2025-01-08 · 4 meetings · latest 2025-09-17 · the minutes Minutes — Budget Committee
Barringtonearliest 2025-01-09 · 9 meetings · latest 2025-11-18 · the agenda Planning Board Meeting Agenda
Northumberlandearliest 2025-01-24 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-01-24 · the document bosmtgapril202020post
Newtonearliest 2025-02-12 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-02-12 · the minutes Minutes — Conservation Commission
Durhamearliest 2025-02-17 · 10 meetings · latest 2026-05-04 · the agenda Agenda for May 4, 2026 Town Council Meeting.
Hanoverearliest 2025-02-24 · 3 meetings · latest 2026-03-10 · the minutes Minutes — Planning Board
Bethlehemearliest 2025-03-21 · 1 meeting · latest 2025-03-21 · the minutes 01 January 8, 2025 Minutes
Goffstownearliest 2025-03-25 · 11 meetings · latest 2026-06-11 · the agenda Planning Board June 11, 2026, Meeting Agenda

And 47 more towns on the record, in an account view.

From the record

The most recent documents behind this page, one per town. Each link opens the town's own file.

27 August 2026 · Alton

the agenda, on the town's own site Agenda 08-27-2026

18 August 2026 · Canterbury

the minutes, on the town's own site 2026-08-18 Agricultural Commission Minutes DRAFT

28 July 2026 · Warner Unknown

the minutes, on the town's own site 07/28/2026

23 July 2026 · Rindge Conservation Commission

the minutes, on the town's own site Conservation Commission — RCC Minutes 072326

Companies on this record262 companies, 100 documents

Named in the same documents that carry this topic, read from the record itself: the firms designing, building and advising the work, each with where the record places them:
NHDESAlton, Bethlehem, Danville and 2 more
CasellaDurham, Kensington, Stratham
EversourceCandia, Danville, Rindge
NHACCBow, Hampton Falls, Ossipee and 1 more
CNHRPCBoscawen, Canterbury, Pembroke
NHMAPlaistow, Rindge, Stratham
AT&TOssipee, Stratham
Casella Waste SystemsDurham, Stratham
NH Fish & GameCanterbury, Rindge
Durham Housing Task ForceDurham
Advanced Drainage SystemsOssipee, Stratham
AECOMOssipee, Stratham
AES CorporationOssipee, Stratham
AirgasOssipee, Stratham
Algonquin Power & UtilitiesOssipee, Rindge
AmazonOssipee, Stratham
American Water WorksOssipee, Stratham
ArcadisOssipee, Stratham
AvitarCandia, Rindge
CPCNHLebanon, Tamworth
SELTBarrington, Lee
Barrett Planning Group LLCBerlin
CathedralRindge
East Kingston Post OfficeEast Kingston
Edward and Gail MartineauCanaan
Fougere Planning & DevelopmentBarrington
Franklin-Verra & Associates, Inc.Candia
Golden Goose PropertiesDurham
HalloranRindge
Mascoma Community Health CenterCanaan

And 232 more companies.

The documents naming each, and the threads they sit in, are the account view. If one of these is you, those are your projects on the record. Ask and we will show you every one, and the towns around them, as they move.

A snapshot of a moving record

Everything above is frozen at 31 August 2026; the topic is not. 146 more events on this topic carry no usable date and are counted, never dated. The counts follow where we read most: a town or a state absent here was not read at depth, and absence is not evidence the topic is absent there. A lighter-read state is not a ceiling; where you care about a region, pointing the system there is the first thing an account changes. How coverage is built, and its known limits: municipalalpha.com/methodology.

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Zoning and site plan, New Hampshire

from the towns' own meeting records

Scope

New Hampshire

every topic this state carries

Area

Development

every topic in this area

Towns on the record

62

with a dated document on this topic

Earliest

13 October 2008

the documents' dates

Meetings, last 90 days

10 against 37 before

dated documents

Snapshot cut

31 August 2026

this page's date

A view that stays current

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